I sometimes wonder whether punctuation and grammar is something that I need to try to "teach" a bit more. I know that the amount that K in particular reads, will mean that she's seeing it in action a lot and to some extent will pick it up from that. In addition to that, I occasionally talk to them about things that crop up on the occasions that we do some writing. So full stops and capital letters have cropped up (so, although both girls are still pretty random in their use of capitals they do both know that they come at the beginning of a sentence and for names of people and places for example), as have apostrophes. The use of apostrophes for missing letters came first, but at the same time I mentioned about their use with possession.
This afternoon K wrote a letter to Father Christmas and as we're spending Christmas at my parents' for the first time this year, I suggested K added a PS to let him know where we'll be. Apart from help spelling 'house', K wrote the following completely on her own: PS. I will be at Granny's house.
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